M Frost

M. Frost's work has appeared in American Poetry Journal, The Hopkins Review, Strange Horizons, and many other venues, with two chapbooks—Cow Poetry (Finishing Line Press) and The Women of Myth (Island of Wak-Wak)—plus a collaboration, Constellation (CreateSpace) with my artist-brother. She writes under the pen name M. Frost to differentiate her creative works from the non-fiction publications required for her job, work that informs this collection through her personal and research experience with horses and as a veterinarian.

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► M. Frost's microchap is available below. Download the PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap with Selected Poems

the horse inside me

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Cover photo taken by author

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Bucephalus

The horse with the mark, one eye blue,
forehead star-blazed, forelock dark as coal.
Alexander ‘gentled him,’ the legend goes,
but what if, instead, the great king gazed
into that celestial eye, as into a moon’s orb,
saw himself reflected, so irresistible a sight,
he sank to his knees in obeisance?

the horse inside me

has grown old
withers hollow
joints thick knobs
once-black fetlocks
gone to gray
but hooves large
as bowls remain
the sound they make
at a run still
thunder

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